For some vendors, a license model based on CPU cores can be the best method for effectively pricing your software.
Since this license model bases licensing on your customer’s computing resource requirements, the more powerful machine the customer has, the higher the license price. For example, since a 4-CPU machine is double the speed of a 2-CPU machine, you can price a license for a 4-CPU machine at double the cost for licensing a 2-CPU machine.
This license model is particularly desirable for distributing high-tech computing, application virtualization, calculation, and other such software.
With LM-X v3.1, it’s easy to implement such a licensing model. You just use the appropriate flags in the LM-X Checkout function to set the count to either the number of logical or physical CPUs. LM-X will then check the corresponding CPU count on the machine and checkout the suitable number of licenses if available.
LM-X users might be interested in learning the details on implementing licensing based on CPU cores by reading our How-to article, “Using CPU cores for floating licenses.”
